The Targeted Call for Proposals of the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme is going to be launched by February 2019 and will be open for 60 calendar days from its official publication. In order to timely inform all partners and potential applicants and to provide more time for developing the partnerships and the projects, please find all main features of the targeted call for proposals in the pre-announcement available at:

On 17 April 2017 in Podgorica the Joint Monitoring Committee approved amendments to the financial allocation of the first Call for standard projects and acknowledged the outcomes of the negotiations carried out by the Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat with the projects on top of the approved score grid of the first call for standard projects upon availability of funds, in compliance with the mandate of 23 November 2017. Please find below the notice of the Managing Authority and the Joint Secretariat, with details of the new financial allocation and list of funded projects.

FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS / SCORE GRID OF PROJECTS SUBMITTED WITHIN THE CALL

The Joint Secretariat is pleased to inform that the assessment process of the project proposals submitted in the framework of the 1st call has been completed and that the score grid is now public. Project budgets and plans are going to be adapted and reduced after negotiations and projects in the ranking list will be financed as far as funds are available.

Please find below the Decree n. 85 of 12/12/2017 by the Programme Managing Authority, the Joint Monitoring Committee decision with the score grid and the press release:

FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS / 22 APPROVED PROJECTS, THE FINAL LIST IS EXPECTED SHORTLY!

The 4th meeting of the Joint Monitoring Committee of the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme, held on 22-23 November in Lecce, was concluded with great satisfaction of the representatives of the Member States, the European Commission and the Managing Authority /Puglia Region. Twenty-two projects were approved on a total of 190 proposals received under the four priority axes. The projects in the ranking list will be financed as far as funds are available. In a few days the publication of the final list is expected.

The Joint Secretariat is pleased to inform that the eligibility check is finished. The outcomes of the eligibility check have been published in the BURP n. 106 of 14.09.2017. We thank all partners for cooperation in this first phase of project assessment!

Please find below the official list of projects admitted to the quality assessment and the list of rejected projects:

The Joint Secretariat is pleased to inform that the first phase of the eligibility check has been closed!

On 5 July 2017 the Joint Monitoring Committee has approved the typology of errors to be admitted, corrected or not admitted. According to this list, we are currently sending the requests for integration and correction (125 in total), as well as the rejection letters (31 in total). Please check your mailbox, as you have only 7 working days for replying! No communication is foreseen for projects which have passed the first eligibility check.! Thanks to all our partners for the efforts.

The total number of project proposals submitted on the four priority axes between 16 March and 30 May is 185. The results will come out in the next phase, dedicated to the assessment of proposals. Meanwhile, download the press release with the first data extracted from the IT system, to be confirmed after the formal eligibility check:

Dear Applicants, thank you very much for your project proposals! The first Call for standard projects is now closed. Next step is project assessment. We will keep you posted on the progress. Yours, the Joint Secretariat.

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WARNING: As stated on page 47 of the Applicants Manual, answers to questions related to the call will not be provided shortly before closure. Please check the last release of the FAQ published on 23 May 2017 at this link. Please check all answers provided.

We kindly remind you to carefully follow the eMS User Manual, while filling in the data of your proposal in the different sections of the platform. Therefore please avoid to skip budget sections (e.g. always define periods before budget items), otherwise technical problems in closing the projects may occur. Please feel free to contact us only in case of real misfunctioning of the eMS platform. Please DO NOT PANIC and thanks for your cooperation.

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DEADLINE EXTENDED!

At the request of the representatives of the participating Countries, the closing date of the first Call for Proposals for standard projects of the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme has been postponed by 15 calendar days. No further postponement is allowed.The new deadline for submitting project proposals is set on 30th May 2017 (h. 23:59).

PLEASE NOTE: This is the last release of the FAQ; as stated in the Applicants Manual, time for sending questions has expired; please contact the Joint Secretariat only in case of misfunctioning of the eMS platform. Thanks for your cooperation.

Click hereto submit project proposals through the ELECTRONIC MONITORING SYSTEM of the Programme (eMS).

PLEASE NOTE: The updated version of the eMS user manual has been published; download the file:

IMPORTANT: The deadline is approaching: please finalise and submit your application as soon as possibile, as to avoid misfunctioning of the system, due to an excessive number of concurrent submissions in the last weeks.

Participation in the Open Days is possible only upon request and confirmation by the JS at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Phone/personal advice are not foreseen for equal treatment and transparency.

The partner search for the first call is now closed. Thank you for your searches! We keep the lists below, for any future project you might want to develop at the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro. For further information please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The first Call for Proposals of the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Programme will be launched in March 2017 and will be open for 60 calendar days from its official publication. In order to timely inform all partners and potential applicants, the Interreg IPA CBC Italy-Albania-Montenegro Joint Secretariat produced a fact sheet including all main features of the first call for standard projects. You can download it here: